What was the thinking behind getting rid of the away goals rule?

[redgunamo]

It was a ridiculous rule that has no relevance in modern day football. Always hated it

True. But it was rather like the lira, the peseta or the mark or the frank; pointless and ridiculous, of course, often infuriating too, but an essential and mildly amusing part of the whole foreign experience. Losing on away goals was always synonymous with Cheating Foreigners Cheating and therefore reassuring.

Things are somehow not the same without it.